Telling it like it is since 19….month

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.

—Thomas Jefferson

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

—Tacitus

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.

—John Bach

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

—Dwight David Eisenhower

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he’s timid.

—Don Drysdale

Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.

—Old Latin Proverb

And so shall Fortune leave a great many elected Republicans behind in it’s dusty wake and, being a an opportunistic Mistress, speed to the dark side where the Leftists, who possess the reckless boldness of the ignorant, dwell.

Earlier this week, I wrote that Paul Ryan’s proposed budget appeared to be a ‘small step’, a baby step…